The Official Blog of Magnt » development http://blog.magnt.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 25 May 2010 12:28:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Nectar Hackathon 2.0 http://blog.magnt.com/2008/10/nectar-hackathon-2/ http://blog.magnt.com/2008/10/nectar-hackathon-2/#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:45:39 +0000 Dave Onkels http://tastynectar.com/blog/?p=502 If you’ve been following Nectar for a bit you’ll know that we don’t approach business in the typical fashion. As an example, we tend to prefer working in intense collaborative programming sessions that we have termed ‘Hackathons’. Our most recent event took place about a week ago in Allen, TX and as with our first edition, we opted to film the entire experience using time-lapse photography.  Without any further adeu, we present Hackathon 2.0 (editing courtesy of our good friend and ninja videographer, Shelby Cook):

 

Nectar Hackathon 2.0 from Nectar on Vimeo.

]]> http://blog.magnt.com/2008/10/nectar-hackathon-2/feed/ 1 Pushing the Ball Forward http://blog.magnt.com/2008/10/pushing-the-ball-forward/ http://blog.magnt.com/2008/10/pushing-the-ball-forward/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:28:39 +0000 Brett Tilford http://tastynectar.com/blog/?p=247 We want to give everyone an update on our progress with Nectar.  First things first though: Happy Birthday to Aaron!  He’s 23 today!  Also, we never mentioned that Josiah had a birthday on September 25!  Hooray for birthdays.  We love these guys.

Things on Nectar are progressing well and our early November launch date is still looking good.  Specifically Charles just finished designing the admin control panel (the backend system that will let you create/edit the content on your site) so it’s now moved to Josiah for him to do some front end development, before it moves to Aaron to do some heavy lifting with the PHP, AJAX, and javascript.  The automated domain name procurement, DNS resolution, site hosting, and purchase processes are all basically complete thanks to Aaron.  We have also enlisted the help of a few outside designers to give us some unique looks to the initial batch of launch designs (a.k.a. “tastes”).

That’s about it for now, much more goodness to come.

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